Bosnian in the network of Al Qaeda

Main individual Saudi sponsors of al-Qaida „Golden Chan“

Then names find out during the FBI investigation in Bosnia

Khalid bin Mahfouz, banker

Saleh Abdullah Kamel, banker

Abdullah Suleiman al Rajhi, banker

Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee, businessman

Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi, businessman

Wa’el Hamza Julaidan, businessman

Yasin al Qadi, businessman

AIY receiving on regularly base donation from Saudi Arabia, Germany and Austria and as well from other Muslim countries.

Main donator is Saudi Arabia, and Saudi opened branch office of Saudi High Commission in Zenica.

AIO has  direct connection with different Islamic fundamentalist organization run by former mujahedeen members of El Mujahedeen unit.

IGASA

DAR AL BER – UAR H.O.

Humanitarian Association Dubai from UAE

KRC-Company djl

DAR AL BIR – UAR H.O.

World Islam H.O. Sarajevo

Saudi High Commission H.O.

Al Haramain Al Masjed Al Aqsa

Banks, businesses & charities

The Islamic banking network, a deviated instrument of terror

Penetration of the business sector

Charities as fronts

Official Saudi Contribution to Terror and Terrorism

Saudi Committee for Support of Palestinians al-Quds Intifada 1967

General Donation Committee for Afghanistan 1980

High Committee for Bosnia Herzegovina 1992

Joint Relief Committee for Kosovo and Chechnya 1998

Al Furqan

Al Haramain

Al Khifah

Al Muwafag

BBI banka

Bedr-Bosna

BIO banka

Global relief Fundation

Igassa

Taibah International

TWRA

Benuvalencia International Fondation

Rabita

Taibah International (Bosnia)

U.S. Designation Date: May 6, 2004

UN Designation Date: May 11, 2004

Background: Taibah International in Bosnia has significant ties to the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), which initially operated in Bosnia under the auspices of Taibah. Up until 1996, Muhamed El Nagmy, the registered leader of GRF, was also working with Ahmed Abdul Kerim as joint leaders of Taibah International. By December 2001, El Nagmy, still listed as the leader of GRF, was working in the Taibah office in Travnik. Additionally, the acting director of Taibah in Bosnia, Ali Hamid El Tayeb, again in December 2001, confirmed that El Nagmy was responsible for bringing financial support to Taibah International while holding the position as the Bosnia representative of GRF. A former employee of Taibah International was a member of Ayadi Chafiq Bin Muhammad’s network, who was designated by the Treasury Department on October 12, 2001.

AKAs: Taibah International Aid Agency
Taibah International Aid Association
Al Taibah, Intl.
Taibah International Aide Association

Al Furqan

U.S. Designation Date: May 6, 2004

UN Designation Date: May 11, 2004

Background: Information shows this non-governmental organization was associated with al Qaida, having close ties and sharing an office with the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), and was chiefly sponsored by the Bosnian branch of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, with whom it jointly conducted many activities in Bosnia. Individuals working for Al Furqan have been involved in multiple instances of suspicious activity, including surveillance of the U.S. Embassy and UN buildings in Sarajevo. One former Al Furqan employee also has ties to the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Although Al Furqan ostensibly ceased operations in 2002, two successor organizations, Sirat and Istikamet, continue to act on behalf of Al Furqan in Bosnia.

AKAs: Dzemilijati Furkan Dzem’ijjetul Furqan Association for Citizens Rights and Resistance to Lies Dzemijetul Furkan Association of Citizens for the Support of Truth and Suppression of Lies Sirat Association for Education Culture and Building Society-Sirat Association for Education Cultural and to Create Society-Sirat Istikamet In Siratel

Al-Haramain & Al Masjed Al-Aqsa Charity Foundation

U.S. Designation Date: May 6, 2004

UN Designation Date: June 28, 2004

Background: The Al-Haramain & Al Masjed Al-Aqsa Charity Foundation (AHAMAA) has significant financial ties to the Bosnia-based NGO Al Furqan, and al Qaida financier Wa’el Hamza Julaidan, who was designated by the Treasury Department on September 6, 2002. Wa’el Hamza Julaidan, a Saudi citizen, is a close associate of Usama bin Laden. Julaidan fought with bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Bin Laden himself acknowledged his close ties to Julaidan during a 1999 interview with al-Jazeera TV. As a member of the Board of Directors for AHAMAA, Julaidan opened three bank accounts on behalf of the NGO between 1997 and 2001 and continued to have authorization to handle two of their accounts as a signatory on two the NGO’s Bosnian accounts.

AKAs: Al Haramain Al Masjed Al Aqsa Al Haramayn Al Masjid Al Aqsa Al-Haramayn and Al Masjid Al Aqsa Charitable Foundation

Al Haramain Islamic Foundation-related Designations:

Al Haramain Islamic Foundation (general background information)

Afghanistan

Albania

Bangladesh

Bosnia

Comoros Islands

Ethiopia

Indonesia

Kenya

The Netherlands

Pakistan

Somalia

Tanzania

United States

Al Haramain Islamic Foundation

General Background: Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHF) represents itself as a private, charitable, and educational organization dedicated to promoting Islamic teaching throughout the world. It is one of the principal Islamic non-governmental organizations active throughout the world. Funding generally comes from grants from other countries, individual Muslim benefactors, and special campaigns, which selectively target Muslim-owned business entities around the world as sources of donations.

There is evidence that field offices and representatives operating throughout Africa, Asia and Europe have provided financial and logistical support to the al Qaida network and other terrorist organizations designated by the United States, and, in some cases, included on the UN 1267 Committee’s consolidated list of individuals/entities subject to Security Council Sanctions. Some of these organizations include the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), Jemaah Islamiyah, Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), Lashkar E-Taibah, and HAMAS – all of which are designated terrorist organizations and all of which have received funds from AHF, its branches, or local intermediaries

Al Haramain - Albania

Saudi/U.S. Designation Date: June 2, 2004

UN Designation Date: June 6, 2004

The U.S. has information that indicates UBL may have financed the establishment of AHF in Albania, which has been used as cover for terrorist activity in Albania and in Europe. In late 2000, a close associate of a UBL operative moved to Albania and was running an unnamed AHF subsidiary. In 1998, the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Albania was reportedly also a financial official for AHF in Albania. This individual, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Nagar, was reportedly extradited from Albania to Egypt in 1998. At his trial in Egypt, al-Nager reportedly voiced his support for UBL and al Qaida’s August 1998 terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Salih Tivari, a senior official of the moderate Albanian Muslim community, was murdered in January 2002. Ermir Gjinishi, who had been supported by AHF, was detained in connection with the murder, but no charges were filed; he was later released by Albanian authorities. Just prior to being murdered, Tivari informed the AHF-affiliated Gjinishi that he intended to reduce "foreign Islamic influence" in the Albanian Muslim community.

Prior to his murder, Tivari controlled finances, personnel decisions, and donations within the Albanian Muslim community. This provided him significant power, enabling him to survive several attempts by extremists trained overseas to replace him or usurp his power.

As of late 2003, AHF was paying for, through a HAMAS member with close ties to AHF in Albania, security personnel to guard the AHF building in Albania, which had been shut down earlier in 2003.

Al Haramain Islamic Foundation (Vazir a/k/a) - Bosnia

Saudi/U.S. Designation Date: March 11, 2002
Amended December 22, 2003

UN Designation Date: March 13, 2002
Amended December 26, 2003

Background: The Bosnia office of Al Haramain is linked to Al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian terrorist group (designated under Executive Order 13224 on October 31, 2001) that was a signatory to UBL’s February 23, 1998 fatwa against the United States. After the Bosnia branch of Al Haramain was designated in March 2002, Al Haramain officials closed its Bosnian operations. Officials in Bosnia then persuaded senior Al Haramain officials to reopen the organization under a different name in Travnik, Bosnia. The new non-governmental organization, Vazir, was founded in May 2003 and established its headquarters in a business space formerly used by Al Haramain. The Ministry of Justice and Administration for the Central Bosnian canton registered Vazir on June 11, 2003, as an association for sport, culture, and education. The office opened under the name Vazir in early August 2003. The original designation of the Bosnian branch of Al Haramain was amended to add the aka, “Vazir,” resulting in the formal designation of Vazir on December 22, 2003.

Benevolence International Foundation

U.S. Designation Date: November 19, 2002

UN Designation Date: November 21, 2002 (Updated January 24, 2003)

Background: Benevolence International Foundation (BIF-USA), incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1992, was a U.S., tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization whose stated purpose was to conduct humanitarian relief projects throughout the world. BIF-USA’s financial accounts were blocked pending investigation in December 2001, and the charity was fully designated by the United States on November 19, 2002, and in the United Nations on November 21, 2002 The three closely linked but separately incorporated entities of BIF-USA, Benevolence International Fund (BIF-Canada), Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF-Bosnia), and their branch offices were all designated simultaneously. BIF operated around the world in Bosnia, Chechnya, Pakistan, China, Ingushetia, Russia, and other nations.

Enaam Arnaout, BIF's Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, has been convicted in the United States for operating BIF as a racketeering enterprise. Arnaout claimed that he did not know bin Laden personally, yet substantial evidence documented the close relationship between Arnaout and Usama bin Laden, dating from the mid-1980s. An article in the Arab News from 1988, reporting on bin Laden’s activities at the "al Masada" mujahideen camp in Afghanistan, included a photograph of Arnaout and bin Laden walking together. In a March 2002 search of BIF's offices, Bosnian law enforcement authorities discovered a host of evidence linking Arnaout to bin Laden and al Qaida. Among the files were scanned letters between Arnaout and bin Laden, under their aliases. In one handwritten letter, bin Laden Indicated that Arnaout was authorized to sign on bin Laden’s behalf. A second letter from bin Laden to Arnaout discussed consulting Muhammad Atif regarding the establishment of a group of fighters. Atif, a bin Laden aid, was indicted for his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, and was designated a supporter of terrorism under EO 13224 on September 23, 2001. Various documents also established that Arnaout worked with others -- including members of al Qaida -- to purchase rockets, mortars, rifles, and offensive and defensive bombs, and to distribute them to various mujahideen camps, including camps operated by al Qaida.

BIF also provided additional support for and has been linked in other ways to al Qaida and its operatives. First, BIF lent direct logistical support in 1998 to Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a bin Laden lieutenant present at the founding of al Qaida. Salim has been indicted for conspiring to kill U.S. nationals. Testimony at the 2001 trial of United States v. Bin Laden, et al, implicated Salim in efforts to develop chemical weapons on behalf of al Qaida in the 1990s. As early as 1992, Salim and UBL made efforts to develop conventional weapons and to obtain nuclear weapons components. BIF was also linked to Mohamed Loay Bayazid, who was implicated in the U.S. embassy bombings trial for his efforts, approved by Salim, to obtain weapons components on behalf of UBL in 1993-1994. Bayazid's driver's license application, dated September 12, 1994, identified his address as the address of BIF's Illinois office. In the late 1990s, Saif al Islam el Masry, a member of al Qaida's majlis al shura (consultation council), served as an officer in BIF's Chechnya office.

AKA: Benevolent International Fund

For Additional Information: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po3632.htm

Benevolence International Fund

U.S. Designation Date: November 19, 2002

UN Designation Date: November 21, 2002 (Updated January 24, 2003)

Background: See Benevolence International Foundation.

AKA: BIF

For Additional Information: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po3632.htm

Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF a/k/a)

U.S. Designation Date: November 19, 2002

UN Designation Date: November 21, 2002 (Updated January 24, 2003)

Global Relief Foundation

U.S. Designation Date: October 18, 2002

UN Designation Date: October 22, 2002

Background: The Global Relief Foundation (GRF), also known as Fondation Secours Mondial (FSM), and its officers and directors have connections to, and have provided support for and assistance to, Usama bin Laden (UBL), al Qaida, and other known terrorist groups. Rabih Haddad, a senior GRF official who co-founded GRF and served as its president throughout the 1990s and in the year 2000, worked for Makhtab al-Khidamat (MK), the precursor organization to al Qaida, in Pakistan in the early 1990s. In addition, GRF provided financial and other assistance to, and received funding from, individuals associated with al Qaida, including Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi. Zouaydi is a suspected financier of al Qaida’s worldwide terrorist efforts and was arrested in Europe in April 2002. Spain’s Interior Ministry has described transfers totaling about $600,000 from Zouaydi and his partners to al Qaida-related organizations, including GRF. GRF has admitted receiving funds from Zouaydi, including over $200,000 to Nabil Sayadi, Head of FSM, GRF’s Belgium office. GRF and FSM personnel had multiple contacts with Wadih El-Hage, UBL’s personal secretary when UBL was in Sudan. El-Hage was convicted in a U.S. district court in May 2001 for participating in a conspiracy to kill United States nationals, which conspiracy included, among other acts, the UBL-directed 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Documents recovered from a search in Kenya indicated that El-Hage was in contact with GRF after he returned from visiting al Qaida leadership in Afghanistan in February 1997. GRF acknowledged that El-Hage and Nabil Sayadi were in contact during this period. GRF also dealt with officials of the Taliban, which at the time was an entity subject to U.S. sanctions pursuant to United States E.O. 13129 (prohibiting trade and most transactions with the Taliban because it provided a safe haven and base of operations for UBL and al Qaida) and subject to international sanctions pursuant to UNSCRs 1267 and 1333. In November 2001, during the air strikes in Afghanistan, a GRF medical relief coordinator traveled to Kabul and engaged in dealings and negotiations with Taliban officials until the collapse of the Taliban regime. A set of photographs and negatives discovered in 1997 in a trash dumpster outside of GRF’s office in Illinois depicted large shipping boxes displayed under a GRF banner. These boxes contained sophisticated communications equipment valued at $120,000. GRF has stocked and promoted audio tapes and books authored by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who was co-founder, with UBL, of MK as well as spiritual founder of Hamas; these tapes and books glorified armed jihad. Despite Azzam’s terrorist background, GRF enthusiastically promoted Azzam’s materials to the public. GRF published several Arabic newsletters and pamphlets that advocated armed action through jihad against groups perceived to be un-Islamic. A GRF newsletter requested donations “for equipping the raiders, for the purchase of ammunition and food, and for their [the Mujahideen’s] transportation so that they can raise God the Almighty’s word . . .” GRF also received $18,521 from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) in 2000. HLF, a Dallas, Texas based Islamic charitable organization, was designated under E.O. 13224 on December 4, 2001, and under the European Union’s Regulation (EC) No. 2580/2001 on June 17, 2002, for its ties to terrorism. See also Taibah International (Bosnia).

Makhtab al-Khidamat / Al Kifah

U.S. Designation Date: September 23, 2001

UN Designation Date: October 6, 2001

Background: Makhtab al-Khidamat/Al Kifah (MK) is considered to be the pre-cursor organization to al Qaida and the basis for its infrastructure. MK was initially created by Usama bin Laden’s (UBL) mentor, Shaykh Abdullah Azzam, who was also the spiritual founder of Hamas, as an organization to fund mujahideen in the Soviet-Afghan conflict. MK has helped funnel fighters and money to the Afghan resistance in Peshawar, Pakistan, and had established recruitment centers worldwide to fight the Soviets. After Azzam was killed in 1989, UBL and Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman (a.k.a. “The Blind Sheikh”) continued to use MK to recruit fighters for the Soviet-Afghan conflict. Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman was implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has been convicted for unrelated crimes pertaining to planning terrorist attacks in the New York area. MK is known to have provided funds and other support to several charities, including the Al Haramain Foundation (AHF) and the Global Relief Foundation.

Bedr-Bosna

The owners of this company are Afro/Asians. Formally they were employees, but in reality they just received salary from donations. As employees were listed members of “Egyptian terrorist group”-Egyptian Government looking for their extradition. It is case of the following persons:

1.         Muhammad Sa'id Masrrur aka. Abu Minah, or Seror Mohamed Saied alias Saied Colic. The surname Colic is because Saied married with Bosnian Muslim Suvada Colic and took her surname.   He is responsible for Security issues.

2.         Jamal al Husayni aka. Abu Ahmad Al Misir or Imad Al Misir citizen of Bosnia also known as Eslam Ahmed Faragalla or Eslam Durmo. He married Bosnian Muslim women Selvedinu Šehic.

3.         Ashraf Ali Gharbani Hasan aka. Hassan Ashraf

4. Asim Ramulj aka. Talha, already prosecuted as terrorist.